All Saints' Day

Feast of the Roman Catholic Church, which glorifies all saintsAll Saints Day is a celebration of the Roman Catholic Church, which celebrates all saints, both canonized and not yet canonized. Celebrated November 1. Orthodox churches celebrate on the first Sunday after the Trinity, which is the end of the Easter period of the year.

The commemoration of martyrs, which is common for various churches today, dates back to the fourth century. The first traces of the general celebration of All Saints’ Day on the first Sunday after the Trinity are found primarily in Antioch. And John Chrysostom in his 74th homily describes this custom. It has remained unchanged in Orthodox churches.

Pope Gregory III postponed this holiday at the request of the Irish monks on November 1, so that it coincided with the Celtic holiday "Samhain", which meant the onset of the New Year.

In addition, one of the chapels of the Temple of St. The Pope sanctified Peter with relics “the holy apostles and all saints, martyrs and confessors, and all the perfect righteous who rest throughout the world.” In the time of Charlemagne, the feast was already widespread, and his son Louis I the Pious, following the instructions of Pope Gregory IV, in 835 declared it an official holiday.

In Croatia today, All Saints Day is a state holiday. People on this day usually go to the cemetery, put the graves in order and commemorate the dead. However, the Church for the remembrance of the dead is the next day - November 2.